NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - There's quite a story behind the Storyville Jazz Band. "It was hard to find musicians. I was 59 when we started," says Bruce Hirstius. "I don't read music and I don't play ...
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At the commencement of Storyville, set in the ...
...Storyville Records, as it has for over 50 years, continues to be the home away from home for the best this music has to offer. Based in Denmark and boasting a catalogue of rarities and seminal ...
In the musical “Storyville,” a once-thriving New Orleans community is all but wiped away. That sweeping change is caused by human intervention, not by natural disaster. But to Ken Page, the Broadway ...
Most days, an American flag and a modest “Who Dat” yard sign decorate the tidy red-brick ranch house in Metairie. On game days, the Stars and Stripes are swapped out for a Saints flag: black and gold ...
New Orleans' famed Storyville district -- a long-gone place of bordellos, "blue books" and the blossoming of jazz -- is being resurrected for TV. As part of a project envisioned as in the vein of ...
TO BRING THAT MAGIC BACK. IN THE 50S, JAZZ CLUBS IN BOSTON WERE IN NO SHORT SUPPLY. IT’S HOT. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN 25 OR 30 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLUBS IN THE BOSTON AREA. AND STORYVILLE WAS AMONG THE ...
To Laurie Sapp of Metairie, going to Saints games can be a hassle — there’s traffic to fight, parking’s no picnic, and urban tailgating has little appeal. But once she and her friends hit the doors at ...
Starz has put in development Storyville, a drama series set in New Orleans during the turn of the 20th century where prostitution was decriminalized and an exceedingly vibrant, hedonistic, celebratory ...
The showy pretence of David Fulmer's new mystery novel, "Jass," set in 1908 New Orleans, begins with the title. Why, we wonder, weren't those s's replaced by z's? Because jazz is so blandly ...
Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Storyville, a new restaurant with a basement speakeasy-style lounge, named for New Orleans’s red light district — and where many jazz musicians got their ...